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One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams Garcia

Published In 2010

Grade Level #5-6

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. And even though Delphine must look after her sisters during a summer trip to California to visit Cecile. When they arrive on the West Coast, their mother decides that they will attend a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, the three sisters learn much about their family, their country, and themselves. Scholastic

 Newbery Honor novel
Coretta Scott King Award winner 
Scott O'Dell Award winner for Historical Fiction

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